October 12, 2008
A DOODLE SIGHTING, AND A MCAIN POST MORTEM?
My brother Doodle sent this along a few weeks back, but I think it is still worth reviewing:
My reply:
Most of this holds up pretty well some five weeks later And yes, indeed, I did use the "Rocky switching to lefty" analogy back in September, and I use it again below. The Obama campaign was not smart enough to let the media and left-wing blogosphere alone take on Palin. Instead of dancing away like Ali on a rope-a-dope, they tried to punch it out, and the polls showed that they were falling behind.
Then the financial meltdown bell rang and saved them. Oh, sure, their surrogates kept hounding and belittling Palin, and the too-cautious handlers in the McCain campaign held her hands behind her while the likes of Charlie Gibson and Katie Courinc slapped her. But the main event became Bush and the meltdown. And McCain=Bush, Obama is change, and the polls turned around in two weeks.
Now, like I say below, does McCain embrace the "Rocky switches to lefty" approach one more time, or does he take a dive on principles?
Take a dive, John. Thanks for the effort, and for your service. Nowhere to go but the White House or Arizona? Say hello to Tombstone for us. Sarah and the rest of us will take it from here.
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On Sep 7, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Dennis McMahon wrote:
Hmmm,where do I start?(Ya,I'll ramble a bit!)
Just wondering if it was only me or did anyone else notice that Obama pronounced Gov. Palin's hometown as "Wasilly" while responding to a reporter just after stating that the press should absolutely not drag any candidate's family or children unnecessarily into the public eye?
Funny thing about that is that 2 rumors, earlier that day,came out of the O camp which purported that:
1)Gov. Palin's Down Syndrome stricken son was actually her daughter's illegitimate child.(DOH!)(I quickly wondered what Dave Faust might be thinking about all of that?).Yup,I took it as a very personal slap in the face to a personal friend of mine,as if procreation naturally gone wrong was a blaming point.
and;
2)The actually true fact that Mr. Palin had been convicted on a DUI charge,some 22 flippin' years ago.(DOH!)(Reminds me of Richard Dreyfus in the movie "The American President",dredgeing up decades old "mistakes in judgement",looking for that one thing in someone else's distant past,totally irrelevent at this time,in order to cast doubt on the players at hand rather than focus on the relavent topics of the here and now,and beyond).
Both references seemed to have been quelled or retracted by the end of that same day.
No word if it was the O camp that scrambled to swallow crow or the media to do the same for irresponsibly putting them out there in the 1st place.
I guess this is where the personal responsibility message from the McC camp and,oh!,Bill Cosby btw,come into play.Tell the truth as truth is,not as how you want it to be.
After seeing now 5 time divorced officer Wooten openly admit that he tased his young son-in-law because "Uh,he just wanted to see how it felt."(DOH!),and shot a moose out of season(aren't law officers supposed to enforce the law?)(DOH!),I would tend to wonder why someone other than his chief of police buddy wouldn't fire him or better incarcerate him for his actions.
Where would we be if Wooten shot his son-in-law with his service revolver because "Uh,he just wanted to see how it felt?"(DOH!).
Regardless of whether or not Palin may have stepped in inapropriately through channels not of her own making,Wooten didn't exercise sound judgement as a law enforcement officer and his superior didn't exercize his authority in order to properly discipline him,ergo,fire the chief and bring in someone else who will,this was a no-brainer-take action-common sense solution to a longstanding good-old-boy local problem hands down.
Sometimes "the law",as rewritten by people who want it their way to fit their needs and wants doesn't fit what's just downright the right thing to do.
I'm Dennis McMahon,and I approved this message.
Hmmm,where do I start?(Ya,I'll ramble a bit!)
Just wondering if it was only me or did anyone else notice that Obama pronounced Gov. Palin's hometown as "Wasilly" while responding to a reporter just after stating that the press should absolutely not drag any candidate's family or children unnecessarily into the public eye?
Funny thing about that is that 2 rumors, earlier that day,came out of the O camp which purported that:
1)Gov. Palin's Down Syndrome stricken son was actually her daughter's illegitimate child.(DOH!)(I quickly wondered what Dave Faust might be thinking about all of that?).Yup,I took it as a very personal slap in the face to a personal friend of mine,as if procreation naturally gone wrong was a blaming point.
and;
2)The actually true fact that Mr. Palin had been convicted on a DUI charge,some 22 flippin' years ago.(DOH!)(Reminds me of Richard Dreyfus in the movie "The American President",dredgeing up decades old "mistakes in judgement",looking for that one thing in someone else's distant past,totally irrelevent at this time,in order to cast doubt on the players at hand rather than focus on the relavent topics of the here and now,and beyond).
Both references seemed to have been quelled or retracted by the end of that same day.
No word if it was the O camp that scrambled to swallow crow or the media to do the same for irresponsibly putting them out there in the 1st place.
I guess this is where the personal responsibility message from the McC camp and,oh!,Bill Cosby btw,come into play.Tell the truth as truth is,not as how you want it to be.
After seeing now 5 time divorced officer Wooten openly admit that he tased his young son-in-law because "Uh,he just wanted to see how it felt."(DOH!),and shot a moose out of season(aren't law officers supposed to enforce the law?)(DOH!),I would tend to wonder why someone other than his chief of police buddy wouldn't fire him or better incarcerate him for his actions.
Where would we be if Wooten shot his son-in-law with his service revolver because "Uh,he just wanted to see how it felt?"(DOH!).
Regardless of whether or not Palin may have stepped in inapropriately through channels not of her own making,Wooten didn't exercise sound judgement as a law enforcement officer and his superior didn't exercize his authority in order to properly discipline him,ergo,fire the chief and bring in someone else who will,this was a no-brainer-take action-common sense solution to a longstanding good-old-boy local problem hands down.
Sometimes "the law",as rewritten by people who want it their way to fit their needs and wants doesn't fit what's just downright the right thing to do.
I'm Dennis McMahon,and I approved this message.
My reply:
Doodle,
Good to hear from you. Well done.
The shit they've hit her with, like the stuff you bring up, plus stuff we've seen since then, I find near psychotic.
The "smear Sarah" race to the bottom by these supposedly serious journos, and the shocked reactions from the normally laconic pundits to the abject sleaze of that race, is something I've never seen the likes of. Remember how long they fought to avoid the John Edwards baby story, supposedly because of the sleaze factor? Sure didn't stop them this time.
The predictable result: the Democrats have been hosed by their own enablers. Since Big Media ran these stories fully recognizing that they were either plain false or incomplete to the point of slander, they have insulted the very people that they depend on for their revenue. Look what happened to US Weekly with their stupid cover - even before it hit newsstands, people were canceling their subscriptions. Those people will not be back. I'm sure the companies who bought ads in that issue are rethinking as well.
Meanwhile, the non-corporate news geeks - bloggers, mostly - used the low-cost transparency and speed of the Internet to quickly debunk the pants off of nearly every rumor and assertion, in most cases even before it was printed or aired by Big Media. Several commenters I've read have compared this phenomenon to the the OODA loop philosophy of legendary fighter pilot Col. Boyd. It's a fancy name and description for playing aggressive football - blitzing the QB, throwing on first down, mixing up the players and plays, changing looks on defense, going after the ball on defense. What us old guys call the West Coast Offense.
Unfortunately for Obama, you have to practice to play that way. If you slotted players for and practiced a conservative ground game, you can't switch to hurry-up ball in the middle of the third quarter without making big mistakes.
Now that McCain has pulled a Rocky and switched back to his left hand lead (maverick, reform, outsider, aisle-crosser), Obama and his campaign are reacting like Apollo Creed, and instead of dancing away gracefully and playing it smart for the easy win, they think they have to go for the knockout. Rocky won that fight in the movie, so we'll see if Obama's current lead and natural strengths are enough to put away the Republican palooka.
Good to hear from you. Well done.
The shit they've hit her with, like the stuff you bring up, plus stuff we've seen since then, I find near psychotic.
The "smear Sarah" race to the bottom by these supposedly serious journos, and the shocked reactions from the normally laconic pundits to the abject sleaze of that race, is something I've never seen the likes of. Remember how long they fought to avoid the John Edwards baby story, supposedly because of the sleaze factor? Sure didn't stop them this time.
The predictable result: the Democrats have been hosed by their own enablers. Since Big Media ran these stories fully recognizing that they were either plain false or incomplete to the point of slander, they have insulted the very people that they depend on for their revenue. Look what happened to US Weekly with their stupid cover - even before it hit newsstands, people were canceling their subscriptions. Those people will not be back. I'm sure the companies who bought ads in that issue are rethinking as well.
Meanwhile, the non-corporate news geeks - bloggers, mostly - used the low-cost transparency and speed of the Internet to quickly debunk the pants off of nearly every rumor and assertion, in most cases even before it was printed or aired by Big Media. Several commenters I've read have compared this phenomenon to the the OODA loop philosophy of legendary fighter pilot Col. Boyd. It's a fancy name and description for playing aggressive football - blitzing the QB, throwing on first down, mixing up the players and plays, changing looks on defense, going after the ball on defense. What us old guys call the West Coast Offense.
Unfortunately for Obama, you have to practice to play that way. If you slotted players for and practiced a conservative ground game, you can't switch to hurry-up ball in the middle of the third quarter without making big mistakes.
Now that McCain has pulled a Rocky and switched back to his left hand lead (maverick, reform, outsider, aisle-crosser), Obama and his campaign are reacting like Apollo Creed, and instead of dancing away gracefully and playing it smart for the easy win, they think they have to go for the knockout. Rocky won that fight in the movie, so we'll see if Obama's current lead and natural strengths are enough to put away the Republican palooka.
Most of this holds up pretty well some five weeks later And yes, indeed, I did use the "Rocky switching to lefty" analogy back in September, and I use it again below. The Obama campaign was not smart enough to let the media and left-wing blogosphere alone take on Palin. Instead of dancing away like Ali on a rope-a-dope, they tried to punch it out, and the polls showed that they were falling behind.
Then the financial meltdown bell rang and saved them. Oh, sure, their surrogates kept hounding and belittling Palin, and the too-cautious handlers in the McCain campaign held her hands behind her while the likes of Charlie Gibson and Katie Courinc slapped her. But the main event became Bush and the meltdown. And McCain=Bush, Obama is change, and the polls turned around in two weeks.
Now, like I say below, does McCain embrace the "Rocky switches to lefty" approach one more time, or does he take a dive on principles?
Take a dive, John. Thanks for the effort, and for your service. Nowhere to go but the White House or Arizona? Say hello to Tombstone for us. Sarah and the rest of us will take it from here.
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As I sit here watching The Simpsons I can't wait for Mel Brooks to get his claws on all this melodrama that people take in as reality so that they can look back and see how silly they themselves had acted through all this,sell-sell-sell-run-run-run-stash your cash under the mattress mentality,while what they should have been doing all along is look for,or make themselves,that hickup in the system called capitulation,that one point where they all wake up and realize that there's some bargain basement value in otherwise great companies that are now aggregeiuosly undervalued by that fear.
Reinstate the uptick rule,dammit!
Reinstate the uptick rule,dammit!
Posted by: JBD at Sunday, November 02 2008 08:13 PM (o1Xqs)
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"Capitulation" - interesting financial market use of a synonym for "surrender".
But I think you mean "Egregiously".
But, yes, Brooks would be the perfect guy to portray the mostly self-induced mayhem. A Musical in 4 Acts: "Meltdown? Shmeltdown! Bring on the Broads!"
But I think you mean "Egregiously".
But, yes, Brooks would be the perfect guy to portray the mostly self-induced mayhem. A Musical in 4 Acts: "Meltdown? Shmeltdown! Bring on the Broads!"
Posted by: JBD at Sunday, November 02 2008 08:18 PM (o1Xqs)
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I don't think so Tim, uuuh Jim.
I've been accosted by pollsters for my opinion, endless phone calls-emails-knocks on the front door, and my general gut feeling is that for every one of those which I don't answer is most likely counted not as undecided, but rather as a nod in their favor.
Why?,because most everyone I know looks at phone, e-pollsters and door knockers as liberal activists that push their "findings" as fact, not as neutral fact gatherers. The only neutral fact gatherer will be the vote itself, and from my seat it doesn't look all as rosey for Obama as is reported, even in the CNN "Poll of polls", let's face it, conservatives by nature tend not to be "activists", they're just-active, and don't tend to participate in polls.
I've been accosted by pollsters for my opinion, endless phone calls-emails-knocks on the front door, and my general gut feeling is that for every one of those which I don't answer is most likely counted not as undecided, but rather as a nod in their favor.
Why?,because most everyone I know looks at phone, e-pollsters and door knockers as liberal activists that push their "findings" as fact, not as neutral fact gatherers. The only neutral fact gatherer will be the vote itself, and from my seat it doesn't look all as rosey for Obama as is reported, even in the CNN "Poll of polls", let's face it, conservatives by nature tend not to be "activists", they're just-active, and don't tend to participate in polls.
Posted by: Doodle at Sunday, November 02 2008 08:33 PM (o1Xqs)
Posted by: JBD at Sunday, November 02 2008 08:34 PM (o1Xqs)
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That 8:13 post was actually from Doodle - I just screwed up the label when I moved it here.
Amateur.
Amateur.
Posted by: JBD at Sunday, November 02 2008 09:20 PM (o1Xqs)
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